Benedicta, Chibeze and Adaeze |
Among the
five people arrested by the Lagos State Police Command is a seven months old
pregnant lady, who has already sold her unborn baby for N200, 000.
The lady,
Adaeze Mba, 23, said her husband Chibeze Mba, sold their unborn baby to Mrs.
Benedicta Ogbonna, an alleged child trafficker and owner of a motherless
babies’ home for N200, 000 even before the baby was born.
The unborn
baby is however not the first baby, belonging to Chibeze Mba, which he had
sold.
According to
him, he sold his first baby, a boy, from an ex-lover called Ojiugo for N100,
000. He claimed that he sold the baby as usual to Mrs.Ogbonna, who only paid
him N30, 000, explaining to him that the baby mother collected N70, 000
balances and disappeared.
Mr. and Mrs.
Mba were actually arrested for stealing and selling three children belonging to
another people.
One of the
babies they stole and sold for N400, 000 was a three months old baby, who is
now a year old.
Another
child is four year old Stanley Esiaka. He was stolen from his parents’ home at the Jakande
area of Lagos State. After stealing the boy, they travelled down to Onitsha,
Anambra State and sold him to Ogbonna.
Police
spokesperson, Ngozi Braide, said: “On March 14, 2013, a case of a missing
person was reported at Ileba-Hausa Police Station. The complainant was one
Caleb. He said that his four-year-old son went missing during the night, that
he left him in the company of Chibeze. Attempts made to get Chibeze on his phone
were futile as he had already switched off. The phone of his wife, Adaeze was
also switched off.
“Detectives,
who investigated the case, traced them to Akwa-Ibom and arrested them. They
confessed to have taken and sold Stanley to Benedicta for N400, 000. The said
Benedicta stays at Onitsha. Police also went to Onitsha and arrested Benedicta,
who confessed that she sold she had already sold the baby to another person for
N600,000.
“On further
interrogation Chibeze confessed to have been in the business for years.
Investigations also revealed that the couple had stolen two kids from two
different couples and sold them. Benedicta seemed to be a child trafficker. She
confessed that she used to buy baby boy for N400, 000 and girl for N300,000
from Chibeze.”
Adaeze
however claimed that she and her husband did not steal first baby, neither did
they stole Stanley.
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